LABOR: Fire Season

In the sullen summer heat, strikes smouldered
into flame like scattered forest fires. To spotters in the Bureau of
Labor Statistics there was nothing new in thisthe spark of labor
unrest always kindles fastest in summer, when men are irritable, when
contract negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But
after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War
Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber
capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of
extinguishing stubborn strikes a...